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LAST EDITION
ONE CENT
KNOWN DEAD AND MISSING, 1,242
TRY TO HAMPER LOCAL INQUIRY
THE DAY BOOK
An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday
VOL. 4, NO. 255 Chicago, Tuesday, July 27, 1915
398
ACTION BY FEDERAL
BUREAU TO BE SLOW
-INQUEST BEGINS
Coroner's Jury Rushes Action to -Determine Blame for,
Eastland Disaster Claim Ballast Pumped Oat at
Dock Ice-Box Toppled Before Steamer Sunk, r
Bodies recovered 829
Bodies unidentified 10
Western Electric's list of miss-
ing 413
Total known dead and missing. .1,242
On board, at least 2,550
Approximate number saved 1,000
Note. The Western Electric's
check on the missing, while it may be
thorough for the employes of the
company, does not include the great
number who went on the excursion
'who were not employed by the company.
If there is to-be an immediate In
vestigation of the sinking of the
Eastland, with the fixing of blame for
the disaster, it must come from some
other source than 'the federal gov
ernment. William C Redfield, secretary of
the federal dep't of commerce and
labor, made this plain when he ar
rived in Chicago this morning to take
charge of the federal investigation.
BeforB'ke was whisked away by
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